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According to Form 10-K document which was delivered to the Securities and Exchange Commission of America, Apple in the past fiscal year of 2009 advertising budget for the first time exceeded 500 million U.S. dollars mark, reaching 501 million U.S. dollars.

Prior to the 2007 fiscal year and 2008 fiscal year, Apple spent 467 million U.S. dollars and 486 million U.S. dollars on advertising costs , which means the increase in the past two years, respectively 4% and 3%.

In fact, comparably Apple’s this advertising costs relatively small. According to “Fortune” magazine’s data, Dell spent 811 million U.S. dollars on advertising a year, Microsoft is up to 14 billion U.S. dollars.

And the ratio of advertising on Apple’s total revenuen continues to drop. In 2001, Apple spent 5% of their income on advertising, followed by continued revenue soared, but now the proportion of advertising costs only 1.37%.

Recently, a global branding report said Apple’s brand values 15.4 billion U.S. dollars, rising 12% per year, and ranks the world’s first 20-bit, while Microsoft, Intel, Dell and down 2% to 12% range. Market research firm illwardbrown after taking into account the social impact ,it put apple on the sixth.

Intel’s integrated graphics driver is currently divided into two series, G4X a set of drivers, G3x and G965 another set of drivers, the only difference is that the driver G4X’s updating speed is faster, but the G3X’s much slower.In fact, this is not difficult to understand, almost all of the manufacturers support new products more strongly.

Intel released a official Windows 7 driver for G3X and G965 in early July, and to our unexpectation,it supports the 945G. We know 945G of WinXP and Vista drivers have stoped updating, but why Intel supports it in its Windows 7 driver? Let’s think, it may because of the netbook, there are a lot of netbooks show the core of the adoption of 945G, and in the future it may be standard in Windows 7 system, so the core 945G Display Driver Windows 7 is essential.

Recently, Intel released the third Win7 Drivers 15.12.75.4.1930 for a series of G3X/G965/945G Di Sankuan , specific updates include:

1, amendments may sometimes use third-party video player, DVD movie playback will cause Windows blue screen problems

2, optimized Intel Graphic Media Accelerator Utility icon in the display

Cikuan driver specifically supports  graphics cards models including:

Intel 945G Express Chipset

Intel 945GZ Express Chipset

Intel 945GC Express Chipset

Intel 945GT Express Chipset

Intel 946GZ Express Chipset

Intel G965 Express Chipset

Intel Q963 Express Chipset

Intel Q965 Express Chipset

Intel G31 Express Chipset

Intel G33 Express Chipset

Intel G35 Express Chipset

Intel Q33 Express Chipset

Intel Q35 Express Chipset

Mobile Intel 940GML Express Chipset

Mobile Intel 943GML Express Chipset

Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset

Mobile Intel 945GME Express Chipset

Mobile Intel 945GMS Express Chipset

Mobile Intel GL960 Express Chipset

Mobile Intel GLE960 Express Chipset

Mobile Intel GM965 Express Chipset

Mobile Intel GME965 Express Chipset

Opera Software today released the mobile phone network survey in September 2009 .It showed 10 countries’mobile phone users after using the Opera Mini browser which can save approximately 8.1 billion U.S. dollars for flow fee.

According to statistics, Opera Mini users in September of the largest amount of ten countries are: Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, the United States, Britain, Poland, Viet Nam. Vietnam is the first short-listed the top ten, replacing the position of Nigeria.

According to the U.S. national operator fees’ count, Opera Mini can save 672 million U.S. dollars for users of the largest of 10 national per month  , 8.1 billion U.S. dollars a year down there. According to the data flow and cost, the users of the United States and United Kingdom save most, followed by that of China (see the table).

Opera Mini Global trends:

- September 2009:users volume is more than 3560 million, an increase of 150% or more, compared to last month also increased by 11.5%.

- Monthly PV total flow is nearly 15 billion (500 million,an average day), an increase of 230%, ring increasing 7.2%.

- Generated nearly 227TB of data for operators worldwide ,an increase of 224%, ring compared with an increase of 8.7%. Because Opera Mini’s data compression rate can up to 90%, which means that the actual data month, Opera Mini server processing capacity can up to 2.1PB, that is 21000TB.

China Trend:

- Users volume rose 70.2%

- PV flow increased 216.1% per year

- The average PV per user flow: 266

- The average user data flow (compressed): 2MB

- The average data flow on each page (compressed): 9KB

- Baidu net is the first in flow for the first time beyond the air net

China’s top ten mobile web site (position last month in brackets):

1, baidu.com (2)
2, kong.net (1)
3, google.cn
4, sina.com.cn
5, renren.com (new)
6, qq.com
7, xiaonei.com (5)
8, sohu.com (7)
9, hao123.com (8)
10, taobao.com

Domestic Opera Mini mobile phone users love the top ten cell phone are all Nokia monopoly, namely, 5000,7100 s, 5130,5220,5130 c, 7310c, 6300,7610 s, 6120,5300.

The full report:
http://www.opera.com/media/smw/2009/pdf/smw092009.pdf

According to the British IT website V3.co.uk reports, the U.S. columnist Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols appraised the top ten best products of Microsoft.

Thomson and Nicholas said that although Microsoft is committed to its latest release of Windows 7 will be the best version of the Windows operating system, if Windows 7 can be among one of the best products Microsoft has yet to be proven. In their views, Microsoft’s top ten best products to date are as follows:

1. Windows Update

2. Windows NT 4.0

3. Windows XP SP2

4. Office 2000

5. Windows 3.1

6. DOS 5

7. Mac version of Office 98

8. Optical Mouse

9. Internet Explorer 7

10. Minesweeper game (Minesweeper)

October 25 message, the father of free software, Richard Stallman (Richard Stallman) on the evening of 22th accepted an interview by Sina science and technology saod, Windows 7 is still  did not solve the core intentional issue of Vista.

Stallman visited China in order to participate the 2009 philosophizing Free Software Summit held by Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Guilin and Beijing on 15th -26th this month.

Stallman said that Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system is malicious as Vista. Microsoft did not change it in any nasty parts. Microsoft Windows 7 may be revised a number of Vista’s mistakes, but they did not solve the core intentional problem of Vista.

Stallman took the example,someone has been found a “spy” feature in the Windows operating system, ,it can publish to the outside world on the user behavior reports. Windows have digital rights protection system (DRM), but this technology is to restrict users in their own computers to use their own documents. There is also “back door”, the company could modify their software mandatory, and even give directions to the user’s computer to stop working.

Stallman said that, Windows Vista is designed to be refused to provide support for some hardware, because the hardware does not meet Microsoft’s restrictions on the user’s requirements. He believes that Windows 7 in this regard has no improvement. For the user, if only saw Windows 7 fix Vista mistakes, but did not notice the problems inherent in Windows would be completely wrong. And there are many serious security problems Microsoft won’t resolve.

Last Stallman concluded that, Windows is a proprietary software, it is limiting the user’s freedom.It is Microsoft rather than the user in control of everything. Proprietary software developers who have great power to influence their users, which is wrong. Stallman welcome you to use free software, and suggest that you use its lead development :GNU operating system.

Stallman also admitted that at this stage the number of users of free software is less than users of proprietary software. He thinks that there are two reasons, first because many people do not know the concept of free software; second, because many people have a “herd” in a situation: the vast majority of schools and businesses use Microsoft’s Windows operating system, This force you can not go to do not use. People need to have great courage to abandon Windows in order to switch to free software. So Stallman is more optimistic about the future, adding that the future of free software development needs of each individual effort.

Before the release of Microsoft Windows 7 ,Microsoft began a fierce campaign. Now Windows 7 has been officially on sale, Microsoft’s new advertising campaign has also been a start. Like the Vista’s release, Microsoft is always adopting generous exaggerated ways to show their own editing software to the world .

Set aside a new round of media bombarded with advertisements on television, if you are walking on the streets of New York, you will be shocked by Microsoft’s Windows 7 ad banner , such Graphic propaganda banners are everywhere, and thess banners are very attractive . One Microsoft-high 10 multi-storey buildings on the hanging huge ads prominently read, “I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea”.

To tie in with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft held a variety of promotional activities and also carried out improvement in many details to attract more users, including a lot of new Windows 7 themes, Windows.com’s personalized home page offers these additional themes for download.

In addition to adding many parts of the regionalization of the global theme of content, Microsoft also provides users with the 14 latest sponsor themes. These wallpapers are from different well-known brands, a wide range of sports as well as videos from the film to the game and even beverage brands.

Microsoft currently provides 14 theme of this brand are: Avatar, Bing, Coca-Cola, Ducati, Ferrari, war machine, war machine 2, Infiniti, Lugares Coloridos, Refresh Everything, Porsche, Zune Characters, Zune Elements, Zune Zodiac.

Google Inc. launched a massive advertising program in the United Statesto promote their online version of Google Apps light cloud computing software suitein this August. From this week, Google plans to expand this information to more countries, trying to compete in the global market with Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus series of office software . From now on, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore’s newspapers and magazines, subway stations, highways and other places

It is quoted from Acer’s internal sources, Acer’s mobile phone sales target for this year sets at between 400,000 -50 million .Next year it will break 1 million in 1.5 million -200 million. In order to promote mobile phone sales, Acer has reached a cooperation agreement with the second largest Taiwan-based telecom service provider Far EasTone Telecommunications . In addition, Acer has reached an agreement with the largest telecommunications network in Hong Kong CSL, French radio SFR